Russians have Suffered ‘a Holocaust’ Too, Orthodox Nationalists Say
Paul Goble Staunton, November 18 – Russian nationalists with close ties to the Moscow Patriarchate increasingly insist that like the Jews, Russians have suffered and continue to suffer their...
View ArticleAfter Paris, Putin Offers the West a Three-Part Deal He Thinks It Can’t...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 18 – In the wake of the Paris tragedy, Vladimir Putin, Moscow officials and Russian commentators have precisely duplicated “the classical model of behavior of...
View Article‘Traditional Family’ Said Making a Comeback in Russia-- But It’s Mostly Rural...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 18 – The “traditional” family that Vladimir Putin and Russian nationalist want in which couples marry early and have three or four children is in fact becoming...
View ArticleRussian Spetsnaz Troops Called Out When Tuvin Soldiers Protest in Irkutsk Oblast
Paul Goble Staunton, November 19 – Russian officials four days ago dispatched a special forces unit to quell a conflict between Tuvin contract soldiers in the Russian army and residents of...
View ArticlePutin Appears Preparing to Attack Saudi Arabia and Qatar Next, Illarionov Says
Paul Goble Staunton, November 19 – Events of recent days may have obscured what is the most important development of all: Vladimir Putin appears to be preparing for a Russian military strike...
View ArticleEnd Sanctions or Russia Won’t Join Effort against ISIS, Federation Council...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 19 – At the end of its call for an international coalition against terrorism, Russia’s Federation Council makes crystal clear what Vladimir Putin’s moves in...
View ArticleParallels with 1999 Could Backfire on Putin
Paul Goble Staunton, November 19 – “Kommersant” reports today that Russian experts say the bomb that brought down the Russian airliner over Sinai resembles those used to blow up apartment...
View ArticleRussia’s Muslims Deeply Split over ISIS, Paris Attacks, and Moscow’s Role in...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 19 – Most of the official leaders of Russia’s Muslim community have denounced the Paris terrorist violence as something organized by non-Muslim forces...
View ArticleA Baker’s Dozen of Neglected Russian Stories – No. 11
Paul GobleStaunton, November 20 -- The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and often strange as the Russian Federation often appears to be is far too large for anyone to keep up...
View ArticleIllarionov Offers Additional Arguments that Putin Planning to Attack Saudi...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 20 – Yesterday, Andrey Illarionov laid out the logic behind his suggestion that Vladimir Putin is preparing to attack Saudi Arabia in order to destabilize and...
View ArticleKyiv Must Seek Collapse of Putin Regime, Not ‘Restoration of Ukraine’s...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 20 – Ukrainian commentator Vitaly Portnikov argues that the goal of the Ukrainian government should not be “the restoration of territorial integrity at any...
View ArticleSyrian Circassians Not ‘Russian Compatriots,’ Russian Foreign Ministry Says
Paul Goble Staunton, November 20 – The approximately 100,000 Circassians in Syria are not Russian compatriots, the Russian Foreign Ministry says, and thus do not qualify for expedited...
View ArticlePutin ‘Played No Less Role’ in Creation of ISIS than Stalin did in Rise of...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 20 – Vladimir Putin should be compared with Stalin rather than with Hitler, Avraam Shmulyevich says, not only because he is seeking to use an east-west alliance...
View ArticleRussian Prosecutors Delay Vitishko’s Release to Prevent Activist from Taking...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 21 – Following an announcement that embattled environmental activist Yevgeny Vitishko would take part in the All-Russia Civic Forum in Moscow this weekend,...
View ArticleKremlin Media Couldn’t Tell the Truth Even If Putin Ordered Them To,...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 21 – Many people believe that the government-controlled media outlets in Russia will do anything their Kremlin masters tell them to do and that if Pupubtin told...
View Article‘Terrorism Direct Result of Destruction of Soviet Union,’ KPRF Deputy Says
Paul Goble Staunton, November 21 – Analysts and commentators have pointed to a variety of factors that they suggest are behind the growth of terrorism in the world in recent decades, but a...
View ArticleTatarstan’s Struggle to Retain Office of Republic President Intensifies
Paul Goble Staunton, November 21 – Farit Mukhametshin, speaker of the State Council of the Republic of Tatarstan, says that Kazan will launch negotiations with Moscow in the coming days in...
View ArticleIs the History of the Russian Intelligentsia Really Coming to an End?
Paul Goble Staunton, November 21 – Few outcomes have been more regularly predicted in Russia than the end of the intelligentsia, “the stratum of enlightened people who have created Russian...
View ArticleRussian Oligarch ‘Worse than ISIS,’ Daghestani Truckers Say
Paul Goble Staunton, November 22 – Many commentators are focusing on the plans of long haul truckers from Daghestan to bring their protest to Moscow on November 30, but they have already...
View ArticleTwo Anniversaries, Two Countries – Ukraine’s Maidan at Two, Russia’s Foreign...
Paul Goble Staunton, November 22 – Anniversaries are occasions for recalling the past and thinking about the future, and they are especially instructive about both when two or more of them...
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